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Plan for Food Safety Criticized at Hearing

A Pattern of Risk
Would Be Needed
For FDA to Respond

The Bush administration's plan to improve food safety would actually do the opposite, by making it harder for regulators to mandate measures to prevent food contamination, critics told a Senate panel.

The plan requests that Congress give the Food and Drug Administration authority to impose preventive controls on "high-risk" products. Specifically, these are foods "that have been associated with repeated instances of...